Does Life Flash Before the Eyes Upon Dying? Study: Specific Patterns of Waves Recorded in a Dying Brain
To humans, death has been mysterious since infancy. What do people feel or see when they die? Scientists who monitored the brain waves and breathing patterns of a dying patient might have clues into this mystery.
When using continuous electroencephalography (EEG) to record the brain waves of an 87-year-old epileptic man, an international team of scientists monitored his brain activity as he suffered a heart attack and died. The Study Published in the February 2022 issue, Front Aging Neuroscience.
Cardiac Arrest Causes Brainwaves to Be Highly Active
Dr. Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville who took part in the study, said specific patterns of brain waves appeared in the patient’s brain 30 seconds before and after his heart stopped beating.
“Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die, similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences,” Zemmar Telled Frontiers.
A 2013 Study The National Academy of Sciences published a study that found all nine mice had high brain activity for 30 seconds following cardiac arrest. This is strikingly similar to what Zemmar’s team found in their patient near death.
Near-Death Experiencers Reminisce on Their Lives
The phenomenon of “looking back on life” Many near-death experiences have occurred just before or during death.
Dannion Brrinkley, author The Light Saves the DayHe wrote about his near-death experiences. The New York Times listed the book as a bestseller for five consecutive months after its 1994 publication.
Brinkley told readers about his near-death experience in September 1975. Brinkley, 25, was home talking on the telephone with a friend when a bolt struck him through his telephone line. This threw him into a cloud of dust.
Brinkley said that he felt his soul leaving his body after enduring extreme pain and heat. He also felt surrounded by peace and tranquility. He described feeling like he was floating in the air, watching his friends and family panic and giving him first aid. He witnessed ambulances rush to his aid and transport him to the hospital. Brinkley’s soul went through a tunnel into a place of light.
Brinkley started to take a look back at the 25 years of his own life, noticing the smallest details. Surprisingly, he could understand the feelings of others who were affected by the incidents he was involved. Brinkley was an aggressive bully and grew up with a love for humiliating and fighting others. He felt the pain, fear and helplessness that his victims felt when he looked back at his past.
One such memory was when Brinkley killed and shot a North Vietnamese officer in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Brinkley experienced the same confusion as the officer when he was shot in his head. He also felt the helplessness and sadness that he couldn’t see his family again. What’s more, he felt the pain the officer’s family felt for years after they learned of his death. He was overcome with shame and remorse after the flashback ended. Brinkley made a complete change after returning to the mortal plane. He did all he could for others.
Near-Death Experiences Are Not Uncommon
The term “near-death experience” Raymond Moody, a psychologist and professor at University of Nevada, coined the term. Moody published his 1975 book. “Life After Life,” A book that he based his study on 100 patients who had been through the same experience. “clinical death” He came back to life. He spoke in his own words about their experiences with the afterlife. Many scientific studies have been done on near-death experiences since then.
In a 2014 Study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers studied 190 near-death experiences with different characteristics, including those that occurred after non-life-threatening events such as sleep, meditation, and fainting—as well as near-death experiences that occurred during coma caused by lack of oxygen, trauma, or disease.
Several similarities were found in the near-death experiences, including seeing bright lights, the sensation of being outside of one’s body, and flashes of past events. Near-death experiences are the most common. Reports by 89-93 percent Each category had a different number of participants “a feeling of peace or pleasantness.”
One fact that might surprise some people is that many people have had near-death experiences. In a study, Psychiatry in 1993 estimated that about five percent of the adult U.S. population has had a near-death experience—that’s 30 to 40 percent of individuals who come close to death. A 2001 Dutch study published in The Lancet found that of 344 patients who were successfully resuscitated after a cardiac arrest, 62 (18 percent) reported having a near-death experience.
Hong Kong Writer Shares Miraculous Near-Death Experience
Chip Tsao, a Hong Kong writer, recounted his 1994 miraculous near-death experience in an interview on the YouTube channel of Stephen Chan Chi-wan, the chief advisor of Commercial Radio Hong Kong.
Tsao recalled that in 1994 when he was 36, he was taken to a hospital dying after a serious car accident. After 15 hours of emergency surgery, the doctor told him that all medical options had been exhausted and “now it’s up to your willpower.” As he lay dying, Tsao saw a large sea in front of him, with golden and pink lotus flowers as big as round tables floating in the sea. He also heard sutras being chanted in his ear.
Tsao said the experience was very clear and real as if there was a force pushing him over, but there was also a voice inside him telling him not to cross over because he had so many unfinished undertakings.
“It was a feeling of fear, but also peace,” he said. “I kept asking myself. It would be comfortable to cross over. Those lotus flowers would take me to another place like a boat.”
The famous writer also experienced several things that even science couldn’t explain.
As he lay in the ICU, Tsao could hear his parents discussing his treatment and whether to hire a second chest doctor to join the team. He also heard his parents crying. Half a month later, Tsao was moved from ICU to a general ward. When his parents came to visit him, he told them that while he was unconscious, he heard them discussing hiring a specialist.
His father said it was true but was surprised because they had discussed it in a hotel room away from the hospital.
“How could you possibly hear it, so far away?” The father asked.
Yet Tsao was assured that he was not hallucinating since he heard the conversation clearly and could even repeat it.
Another miraculous event was that when Tsao was in ICU, his friends came to visit him. The next day, Tao saw these friends visit him again, wearing the same clothes and speaking the same words. Tao felt very strange. After inquiring, he learned that he foresaw his friends visiting him the next day in his near-death experience.
These experiences gave Tsao a deeper understanding of the meaning of life and death.
“Having seen things in the future and left this space, there should be another place for people after death,” he said. Later in his life, Tsao had two more brushes with death, which gave him a new view on life, space-time, and afterlives. His experience also made him believe that there is a higher force above mankind.
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